Posts Tagged ‘botnet’

OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012


Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet can be. Previously, we wrote that OSX.Flashback was generating money for its authors by displaying advertisements on compromised computers. We now have a m...

OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012



Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet can be. Previously, we wrote that OSX.Flashback was generating money for its authors by displaying advertisements on compromised computers. We now have a m...

Worth Reading: Confessions of a botnet operator

Monday, May 14th, 2012
A self-confessed operator of a Zeus botnet has hosted a Q&A session on his personal motivations, his area of operations and computer security in general


Pastebin Shares Botnet Source Code

Monday, May 7th, 2012


Few days back, we found another Pastebin entry that contains a source which looks to be malicious botnet code. As I wrote in my earlier blog, malware authors also use Pastebin to trade botnet kits. Many times, snippets of a botnet help researchers understand the workings of the botnet and write detections for it. The Read more...

Flashback botnet is a cash cow

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
We have all heard about the Flashback malware targeting machines running OS X and enslaving them into a botnet, but not a lot of attention has been given to the ultimate goal of the criminals behind i...

Five Shocking Statistics From The Latest Internet Threat Report

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Anti malware company Symantec released its threat report for 2011 on Monday. Buried in the dry statistics about the number of Web based attacks and malicious programs detected during the year are some surprising facts. Among them: religious-themed Web sites are among the dirtiest on the Internet.

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Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Much bigger than Symantec says

Efforts by Apple and anti-virus vendors to kill the vast botnet assembled by notorious Flashback Mac Trojan may be much less successful than previously thought.…

OS X Lamadai: Flashback isn’t the only Mac malware threat

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012


The Flashback trojan has been all over the news lately, but it is not the only Mac malware threat out there at the moment. A few weeks ago, we published a technical analysis of OSX/Lamadai.A, the Mac OS X payload of a multi-platform attack exploiting the Java vulnerability CVE-2011-3544 to infect its victims. OSX/Lamadai.A has ... Read More...

India becomes the king of the spammers, stealing America’s crown

Monday, April 23rd, 2012




SophosLabs reports on the top twelve spam relaying countries for January - March 2012.

Latest SpyEye Botnet Active and Cheaper

Friday, April 20th, 2012






On April 16, we found a Pastebin entry selling the latest version of the infamous SpyEye botnet (Version 1.3.48) for a much lower price than we’ve seen elsewhere. (This botnet is mainly used to steal banking information.) The quote was just US$150 including three months hosting, after that it’s $15 per month. This version was Read more...